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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18

The guaranty fund for the National Mu-s
sical Association, to be held in this city in
July, still lacks considerable of the requisite
amount. There ought to be no difficulty in
making it up. The subscription is intended
strictly as guaranty fund, to be drawn upon
if necessary, but not otherwise. 1t is expect
ed the convention will pay expenses, and in
any event the deficit cannot be large. Still,
the guaranty fund must be sufficient to
cover all contingencies. The event will be
one Of national interest among musicians,
and will attract large numbers of people here
Indianapolis competed with other cities for
the honor of entertaining the convention, and.
having succeeded, should give the manage
ment a hearty and liberal support.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18

Hon. FRANK HURD, of Ohio, who spends
much Of his time in New York, now, says he
will be candidate for Congress in his old
district, two years hence on a pronounced
free trade platform. Mr.. Hurd further says
be would not be surprised to see break in
The Southern States at the next election, as
the tariff question was steadily becoming one
Of moment, and they were becoming thor
sughly imbuea with the idea that protection
was necessity. All of this the Ohio free
trader deplored, but he nevertheless freely
admitted it to be one of the signs of the
waning of the Democratic strength.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE Baltimore & Ohio deal seems to be travel
ing by freight tran-Baltimore American.
THE more you puff cigar. the smaller it be-
comes. And that is the case with some men.
Puck.
THERE is long haul and short haul, but
there doesn't seem to be any haul together.
Buffalo Express.
THE blue and the gray go together now.
Everybody can see that when the veterans take
their hats off.-Elmira Gazette.
IT looks little queer to the Prohibition
lists and liquor men congratulating Governor
Hill on that veto.-Pittsburg Chronicle
IT takes longer for your average party political
manager to learn anything than it does any
other man on earth.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
THE man who writes the Glow to- Get Rich"
articles for country weekles has usually failed
in business at least fourteen tines.-New York
Commercial Advertiser
Now is the time for the Republican masses to
prepare for the fight against the corporations
two years hence No man who has ever misrep-
resented his constituents this question
should be placed in ofice.-Denver Republican.
HARPER's WEEKLY continues to revel in the
Injuries of mugwumpery. just what those
Injuries are we do not know. Clear down to
the bottom of the whole thing, however, is the
succulent root of free trade. and it is that which
Harper's Weekly is fondly fostering Detroit
Tribune.
AGAlNSI Sdpltdl usoiully cupIOyou tutE6 Is no
hostility worth considering. 1t is against cor
rupt money power that seeks to pervert govern
ment and control business for its own selfish
ends that the protest of the Labor party is di.
rected And it is q protest which it behooyes
the Nation to heed-New York World
THE chief danger of cold injurious to growing
crops to be apprehended after the middle OF
April is the May cold PERIOD which recurs
about the average date of May 9. But as this
is seldom severe enough to kill young crops. il
will be wise for the Western farmer not to defer
planting his corr upon the mere apprehension OF
a renewal Of wintry weather.-New York Her
aid 81 srg
IT is time for Henry Watterson to withdraw
his charges that Mr.. Cleveland is a cvil-service
reformer. Senator Beck, OF kentucky, who
used himself to indulge in insnuations to the
| same effect is now completely satisfied and
says: 1.-The Southern people ought to: be solid
| for Cleveland for he turned the rascais out and
| gave the Offices to good Democrats milwaukee,
| Sentinel.
A WISE, practical law on the subject would
certainly be productive of good toe both pro
| ducers and transporters and. whepeYAr, legisla
tors shall learn that railways not pm bic enc
| miles, and that commerce must have wide iati
! tude in its channels. there will be 10 difficult,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18

THEY have not yet found natural gas at
Charlottesville, but in the absence of that
sensation the good people Of that vicinity con-
tinue to be entertained by new developments
in regard to the case of the COW which re-
Gently performed the remarkable feat of eat
ing several bars of hard soap. The legal COM
plications growing out of the occurrence, as
stated by our correspondent, are likely to give
it place among leading cases. f
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18

PROVIDENCE, kinder than the City Council,
came to the relief of the people with "a rain
that lays the dust. This relief, however, is
only temporary. In few days the dust will
be as bad as ever, and will be continuing
nuisance during the summer unless some
thing is done to suppress it. The public does
not expect great things from the City Coun-
Gil, but it has right to expect this matter to
be taken up and disposed of in a practical
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18
THE NATURAL GAS SUPPLY.

AS an evidence that shrewd capitalists be-
lieve in the permanency of the natural gas
supply the Pittsburg Dispatch cites the fact
that the Philadelphia Gas Company is nego-
tiating for lease of the Pennsylvania Nat
ural-gas Company's lines in that vicinity
The terms offered cover guarantee of a
per cent. dividend on the 81, 00O,O 600 capital
stock of the Pennsylvania company for eight
years, and further guarantee of a dividend
for twelve years subsequent at a rate equal to
half what the Philadelphia itself shall be
paying through that period The Philadel-
phia now pays IL per cent. The Dispatch
says the significant point about it is that ''the
Philadelphia company people know more
about natural gas. its qualities, its value and
its probable duration than any one else. They
have been using it longest and most extern
sively; they have by far the greatest number
of wells; they keep records from day to day Of
tie supply and force of each well; and are in
all particulars in position to judge of the
lasting quality of the territory, Were the
local fields to give out the Pennsylvania
company's lines or leases would be dead loss
to the Philadelphia. The guarantee of abso-
lutte dividends for eight years on liberal
capitalization, and of what is almost equiva-
lent for twelve years longer, can only. there
fore, be taken as an evidence Of the intelligent
Is Ia hast I'D -.
durability of the gas supply" Of course, no
evidence in regard to the probable duration of
the natural-gas supply can be conclusive, but
and such testimony as that above cited is
quite as valuable as scientific conjectures
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18

THE Minneapolis plan for street-sprinklng
has been recommended as a desirable one for
, this city to adopt. Under this system the
cost of sprinkling is assessed against the
abutting property, in the same manner as
paving or other street improvements are pro-
vided for No sprinldng is done however,
on any block until specified number of resi-
dents have petitioned for it. The contract
for the work is then let to the lowest bidder,
and the cost, it is claimed, is much less than
the ordinary outlay for such purpose to pri-
vate concerns The plan seems 10 be good
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18

formty of action and to better understand
ing all round if the commission would issue
section, and defining its real intent and mean
ing Until this is done it cannot be expected
there will be any uniformity of action among
the roads, and many of them will continue to
construe the law as strongly as possible to
their own advantage and perhaps for the ex-
press purpose of making it odious.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18

ADVOCATES of prohibition are pointing with
pride to the fact that no less than eighty six
indictments for liquor selling have been found
by the grand jury of Kennebec county, Maine.
at the present term of court While this may
law, it also shows that there has been good
deal OF liquor selling going on in that vicinity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18

one, provided the tenants of property, and
not the owners alone, have voice in the
matter and the right of petition. Otherwise,
the occupants of rented houses might find
their condition in nowise improved landlords,
as a rule, having no disposition to voluntarily
assume the expenses for any sort of improve
ment whatever.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18
THE CIVIL-SERVIJE 'REFORM.D

OF all the people who have their say from
form no one shows more ignorance of the act
ual workings of the system under the present
administration than the members of the Civil
service Commission themselves, or gentlemen
who have formerly served in that capacity.
Mr. Dormau B. Eaton has been delivering
lecture on this, his favorite topic, and announces
that in his opinion Mr.. Cleveland has done
we'll in enforcing the law, although owing to
the influence of the late Mr. Hendricks he has
been obliged to disregard it in Indiana, and for
reasons unknown to Mr.. Eaton, but undoubt-
eddy good, has suspended its operations in Ma
ryland also With these two exceptions the
ex- commissioner considers that the President
has done all that the friends of the system
could ask, and that he is entitled to another
term of office to give him fair opportunity
for carrying out further reforms. To show
how little knowledge Mr.. Eaten has Of the
facts in the case 1t is enough to point to
the records of the Postofice Department.
The figures prepared by Mr.. Villas, previous to
his departure for the West, for the informa-
ton of the President, show that out of total
number of ., 359 presidential postmasters in
the United States between $50 and 400 are
still Republicans The biggest sweep has
been made in the South, scarcely Republic
an being left there. The average number OF
presidential postmasters by States shows q
proportion of about ten to each, with as high
as thirty in New York, twenty in Massochu-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18
ne WIN Never &c, There.

Plymouth Democrat tDem.) @ses
Green Smith will never be Governor of IT.
diana. He cannot get the nomination. and he
ought not to have it. Whether right or wrong,
the late Lieutenant governor trouble can be
traced directly TO him, and the Democratic party
cannot afford to fight the battle over again with
Green Smith in the lead in 1885, He has plenty
of sand. and so has a bull that attempts to butt
an engine off the track, but he has very poor
Judgment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18

AT meeting and banquet of the Civil.service
Reform Association of Philadelphia few nights
ago, exMayor Low, OF Brooklyn, responded to
toast. In the course of his remarks, he said:
1.-THE civil-service law has been tried success
fully in Brooklyn. After it had been in opera
ton a while happened to be sitting at dinner
asked me how the politicians were getting along.
l told him that, as ffar as I could judge, those
who were in were satisfied, but that / wasn't
competent to speak for those who were out. He
said that reminded him of what he used to see
frequently in Indiana, where he once resided,
when great heards of swine ran through the
woods all summer time eating acorns, but in the
winter time they would all huddle together. He
said the perfect piacidness of the pigs in the
middle contrasted painfully with the unrest that
always seemed to him fitting type of politics
in the absence of civil-service REFORM
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18
Sim Coy Gang Politics.

Loennsport Journal.
Three members of the grand jury investigating
the Indianapolis tally sheet forceries, sent a
communication their presiding judge, Thurs
day. stating that the evidence before the jury
was direct and conclusive as to the perpetration
of the forgeries and the persons who committed
them. but three Democratic members of the jury
refused to iud indictments. Thus Sim Coy pol
itics takes possession of a part OF the machinery
of cur courts, and so shields gang villains from
the penalties Of their crimes Is Indiana to be-
delivered wholly to the rule of Sim Coy corrup-
tion and scoundrelsml
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18
Telephone Calls.
Business Office. 23S Editorial Rooms o41

THE Brooklyn Eagle, a Democratic organ
Hills veto of the high-license bill and con-
cludes long article with the remark that
1.-THE Democracy should get on the rational
side of a great moral question, and not repeat
its folly on the slavery question by its course
on the high-license question:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18

Mr.. AsToR CAREY of New York, wealthy
student at Harvard College. has given 500, 900
for the erection of a swimming bath for the use
of the students. The swimming house is to
connect by covered passageway with the gym
nasium, SO that students exercising in the latter
may take plunge without leaving the building.
new triumph for the advocates OF physical
culture and muscular Christianity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18

THE New York Times expresses the opinion
that 'fn nearly all the cases in which pleas
have been put in for the suspension of the
long-and-s short haul section Of the Interstate
commerce act, the provisions of the section do
not in reality prevent the low rates for
through traffic which are desired" This
means that the railroads, or some of them, are
misconstruing the act either ignorantly or
pnrposely in such a way as to make it I'M
necessarily burdensome and injurious to bust
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18
TIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
lONDON-American Exchange in Europe. 449
Strand.
-PARTS--American Exchange in Paris, 80 Boulevard
des Capucines
NEW YORK-Gedney House and Windsor Hotels.
CHICAGO-Palmer House.
CINCINNATI-J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street.
LOUISvILLE-C. T. bearing, northwest corner
Third and jefferson streets
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company Union Depot
and Southern Hotel.
WASHINGTON. D. C. Riggs House and Ebbitt
House.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-01-27
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TEACHERS

The Board Of School Examiners Of Henry count,
Ohio, will hold meetings for the examination Of ar
phcants for teachers certificates as follows:
In Basement of Court House in Ma
poleon, Ohio, on the 1st and Sd satur
days in March and the list and Sd Sat
urdays in April and May. the fist Sat
urday in June, July and August, the
list and sd Saturdays in September
and the list and Sd sa, urdays in octo.
Der, the 1st and Sd Saturdays in No
yember, and the list Saturdays in De.
cember, January and February.
Evidence Of good moral character will be requiret
Of all candidates. That evidence to bea personal
knowledge Of the Examiners concerning the appli.
can't, or certificates Of good moral character from
some reliable source. g.tNe
Ahs! Il :. sgEEsk:srED. E3!hh: EXAMINER.
PHILIP O. SCHWAB. 5tos
Peb2O-7s. r.g an
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-01-27
Hard to Hoax.


Prof. Baird's grave features relaxed
into smile when the dispatch from
Paducah. Ky, announcing the discov-
cry of dIamond-ield near that place
was shown TO him, writes n Washing-
ton correspondent of the New York
Herald I II n Ii Lt4i II
Il should say, without knowing any
thing about it, he said. that the story
was hoax. None of the specimens re-
ported 10 have been sent to the Smith
sonian have been received, nor do be-
lieve they will be. Prof. Proctor, an
eminent geologist Is now making
tour of Kentucky, but he has not been
heard from upon the subject II the
story possesses any foundation in fact.
the probability is that the mine is salt
ed Sucn tricks do occur occasionally.
/ remember about ten wears ago won-
dcrful discovery of diamonds was re-
ported from Colorado. The newspapers
teemed with descriptions of the mine
and its dazzling productions. A party
of gentlemen went from San Francisco
and examined the mine in person. In
their Judgment 1t was bona-fide dis
CONCA1s 4hCl lOluAllCu " SdAlOl hld
and organized stock company, with
capital running up into the millions.
Mr. Clarence King, one of the geologists
attached to the Smithsonian, had just
returned from Colorado when the ex-
citement was at its height Nothing of
the kind had come under his observa-
ton, and naturally enough he regarded
the discovery as reflection upon him.
SELF He returned to Colorado, and saw
at once that the mines were sailed
The projectors of the affair offered him
u large sum of money not to expose
them, but he refused to be bribed, and
so the fraud became public.
whenever an alleged important dis
covery like this Kentucky mine, for in
stance, gets into the papers we of the
Smithsonian have to suffer the conse-
quences. am quite sure that before
the expiration of 4 week We shall re-
ceive Il hundred letters about it. Peo-
pie write TO us upon every conceivable
subject We received letter the other
day from a man in Pennsylvania who
claimed to have found petriiied par
rot, Which he offered to sell for 81 900.
III Is Impossible TO petflly the SOlt tissues
Of Il bird, but told him to send it along
AMI we would examine it for him. 1t
proved to be nothing but water-worn
fragment of a limestone rock, with some-
thing of the appearance OF petrified
parrot might have if such thing were
possible.
Speaking about curious people, 1
have Just written letter to Mr.. John
Hampden, of London, who sends us
each month for distribution magazine
devoted to proving that the earth is fiat
Some years ago Mr.. Hampden wagered
Arthur R. Wallace, the celebrated scien-
tst, fl,000 that Wallace could not
prove the earth to be round. There
were three umpires, two of whom decid-
ed in Wallace's favor, and the money
was paid to him."
do YOU answer crank letters?"
1--WE have one clerk who does moth
ing else. Occasionally they write US
second time, and express their regret
that an institution SO famous should not
possess one man of good common
sense"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-01-27
Dreams.

Nayl Let them dream their dreams Of per
feet love;
ltis the sweetest feeling. the most fair,
This hower-like Joy thai blooms in the soft
air
or Youths bright heart, with Hopes blue
heaven above.
Breathe naught Of disenchaniment; do not
bring
Misgiving TO the bliss nf blended souls,
The while Lifes brimming liver golden
rolls
Through primrosc-iighted uplands of the
Spring.
The blossoms of Eternity lie furled
In the dim kindling buds OF dreams that
keep
A futering pulse within Times broken
sleep:
Dreams are not ijlo; dreams have saved the
world.
And therefore 10 the many heights afar
Our lOwland eyes thut yearn and dream we
lift,
And TO the isle-likc u,ists that round them
drift,
And TO the moon and to the morning-star.
-MacmIllau's Magazine.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-01-27
Small Selfishnesses.

SelfishNesses as irritating as the grasp
ing of the best seat and best light and
best novel and first chance at book or
newspaper can be met with at every
turn in many families; the settishness,
let US say, that, having views on any
question conflicting with the views of
another, will give voice to those views
in season and out of season, and OBJ
trude them even to the injury of the
feelings of others, and if not early and
late insisting upon them, yet never
failing to read the fragment from book
or journal unpleasantly supporting
them, and indulging in the audible sniff
Or sneer or outspoken inuendo. if such
thing there be, on every occasion where
the Indulgence is possible, seltishness
that shows consciousness of the value
of no ones views but ones own, and
treats the individuality of all others
With contempt. A similar selfishness is
that which disregards engagements,
which considers the promise to be at
home a certain day or fixed hour as
of no weight, besides the inconvenience
of keeping the engagement and who
in this manner disturbs the household
arrangements by making meals wait
while servants grow impatient and un-
willing, and eyes grow tired with
watching and ears with listening, just
as much as the almost precisely opposite
selfshness insists upon the keeping of
such promises and engagements even
to the point of positive discomfort and
injury to the other party, who perhaps
cannot keep them without such injury,
and could be excused by one with any
unselfish care One would find it hard
to come to the end of a statement of
these small acts of seltishness which
infest the household and hurtit through
burning sense of the injustice done
by them; and it is a question il, with
the present imperfection of human ma
ture, we shall ever quite escape them;
they are as countless as gnats in a
swarm, and as vexatious There is but
one way to abate their nuisance, and
that is by frequent remembrance of
the exclusive identity and rights in life
of everybody else-a remembrance that
many good Christian who fancies him.
self dearer to his Maker than another
fails to entertain. Meanwhile, those
who are aggrieved by these sellishnesses
have the consolation of knowing that
even in the injury they endure, and the
injustice that is dealt out to them,
they are practicing self-abnegation
that bears them to loftier levels of char
acter than can ever be reached by those
who commit the injury, trlfling though
that may be.-Ha,per's Bazar.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-01-27

The torpedo cannon-ball invented by
Capt. Coudray of the French navy
seems to have solved ailirmatively for
his countrymen the question whether
shells containing large charges of the
high explosives can be used safely. Tho
velocity is not very high. 10 be sure,
but it is put by the AVenir Militaire ut
over 900 feet second, this presumably
meaning the initial velocity. The charge
introduced is forty pounds Of gun-cot-
ton. Tho experiments with it began
four years ago at Caves, near Lorient.
Still. it must bo said that the charges
arc vastly inferior to those that can be
used in the submarine gun of Ericsson
and the pneumatic gun of Zalinski. The
former has the further advantage of
striking the vessel below her thick
armor. while the latter has u much
greater range, apparently, than the cam
non ball of Coudray.